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Call for Proposals

Submission period: January 20 – March 31, 2025​


Haiku North America invites your proposals for the 2025 HNA conference, to be held September 24 to 28, 2025 in San Francisco. Our weekend theme is “discover.” You are welcome to explore how this theme might apply to your proposals, but this is not required or privileged. We are eager to schedule papers, presentations, workshops, readings, performances, panel discussions, exhibits, and other creative ideas, whether individually or in collaboration with others. Our focus is on haiku, but we also welcome proposals relating to senryu, haibun, haiga, and linked verse.
 
Some notes to consider:
  • We encourage presentations that provide an intellectual or emotional emphasis, or both (the head and the heart), whether academic or nonacademic in nature.
  • Presentations should do their best to point away from the presenter. For example, other than readings where you might read from your new book, we discourage self-promotional presentations; instead, focus on a topic that will benefit the audience more than you, and present how others have explored it, not just your own involvement with that topic.
  • To help promote HNA as the cutting edge of haiku-related presentations, performances, and scholarship, we encourage presentations that have not been given previously, but feel free to provide context.
 
Please submit your proposal ideas by March 31, 2025. Please note that strong submissions sent earlier than this date may have a greater likelihood of being scheduled. We plan to respond to all proposals by April 30, 2025.
 
In making your proposals, please write each description the way you imagine it appearing in a printed program. In other words, address the conference audience, not the planning committee. If you have supplemental information (context/background), but that in the “explanation” field (optional). Please also tell us your anticipated audio-visual needs, such as a digital projector or stage space, or other special needs.

Session times on Thursday through Saturday will generally run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with additional sessions on Sunday morning, plus evening sessions. If you have time restrictions, we may not be able to accommodate them.
 
Please submit using our HNA 2025 proposal form — due by March 31, 2025.
 
Note: HNA does not generally entertain proposals on tanka, unless subordinate to a haiku-related focus. For tanka presentations, the Tanka Society of America plans to hold a Tanka Monday immediately after HNA (look for proposal opportunities through the TSA website).
 
Please direct any questions or inquiries regarding proposals to the program committee through Michael Dylan Welch at [email protected].
 
We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!